Q. I make a food where each piece weighs between 200 and 300 percent of the reference amount customarily consumed (RACC). Each piece may be sold as a single unit in a package or there may be multiple units in a package. I’m confused when I'm required to use the dual label format.
A. Due to its weight, this type of food will always need the dual label format showing nutrition per serving derived from the RACC amount and showing nutrition for the entire unit. Let’s say that you are selling a muffin packaged individually that weighs 250 grams. The RACC for muffins is 110 grams. This means that the package for the single unit is just over 227% of the RACC. You would need to include a nutrition panel that shows the nutrition per ½ muffin (the serving size derived from the RACC) and also shows the nutrition per the entire package. If this same 250 gram muffin is sold in a package of four muffins, the nutrition panel would again need to show the nutrition per ½ muffin and also show the nutrition per 1 muffin.
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